"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all."
-Samuel Butler
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"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.“
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"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."
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"Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons."
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